'Plots' in the Bible

In the secret place of Your presence You hide them from the plots and conspiracies of man;You keep them secretly in a shelter (pavilion) from the strife of tongues.

You will not be afraid of the terror of night,Nor of the arrow that flies by day,

A quick-tempered man acts foolishly and without self-control,And a man of wicked schemes is hated.

From you [O Nineveh],One has gone forth who plotted evil against the Lord,A malevolent counselor [the king of Assyria].

They sat down in groups of hundreds and of fifties [so that the crowd resembled an orderly arrangement of colorful garden plots].

serving the Lord with all humility and with tears and trials which came on me because of the plots of the Jews [against me];